Underbelly

Props to Henry Farrell for putting me onto the imperfect-but-still-superb account by Cornelia Woll, offering a comparative analysis of ba...

Jennifer Taub's Other People's Houses  is likely to be about as good a book as we are going to get by way of overview of the woes o...

House of Debt  by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi seems to be receiving a warm reception.  Still, I'm not sure the reviewers have made clear wh...

We're back from socialist hell Paris where, I have to say, life seemed not  bit different the day after Marine Le Pen's 25-percent...

Gearing up to read Tim Geithner's tell-all about his years on the bridge in the storm, I dusted off the pixels on the memoir of his col...

Halfway through Alan Blinder's After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response and the World Ahead --it's a rewarding r...

In her memoir of her service as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair tells  cute one on herself on how she emerge...

I've just now caught up with Noam Scheiber's The Escape Artists  and it is just as good as the reviewers say it was (for one of the...

Elevator pitch for Neil Barofsky's  Bailout : "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington starring a guy with as highly actuated sense of right...

Best short not-very-technical intro to the Euromess I've seen anywhere: link .

Who caused the great metldown? There's a school of thought that blames it all on the GSEs--FannieFreddie--and their cockamanie project ...

Still can't make up my mind just what to think of  Jeffrey Madrick's Age of Greed .  There were times when I found myself thinking t...

Squeeze 'em until the pips squeak : Lawrence H. Summers, President Obama’s former chief economic adviser who has returned to his previo...

For twenty year or so now, I've taught the " Gordon Growth Model " of valuing stocks, to be used when earnings are retained a...

A carriage house with a 12-car garage . Update: details and a picture here .

Felix Salmon has certainly matured into one of our most helpful and generally instructive commentators on the mare's nest that is modern...

  They say the Devil has nine questions . Barry Ritholtz has ten ; he poses them to the four guys who didn't finish their term paper: 1...

I'm still chewing on Steve Rattner's book about the auto bailout and in particular, his encounter with the the seemingly immovable ...

Steve Rattner's Overhaul ,  his surprisingly cheerful account of his campaign to save the American auto industry, may be the best book I...

Arnold Kling can barely contain himself:  [T]toss around words like "shoddy" or "sloppy" or "fraud" is going...